popeye on betta :(

[katyboombaty]

hey everyone,
yesterday morning i woke up to my betta named Big Spender having popeye in his one eye. he had no symptoms the previous day but i did a 100% water change and added jungle fungus eliminator when i noticed the problem. will this work? his eye today it still pretty bad looking and he has a white thing right below it. He's not eating, but he still comes up to me when i look in the tank and he goes up for gulps of air. HELP!

 

[Iggy]

He should be fine, just keep up the water changes and do more research on the web. He might not eat for a couple days if he is in pain, so just keep him company and keep up the treatments.

 

[theeyrietrainer]

ugh, you too?! i once did water changes to my bettas, and the next day, he too got pop eye. poor guy, he ended up dying, he was a nice royal blue betta when you feed him (what do you use?) put the food on the side where the eye is fine. he won't be able to see in the other eye. if you can submerge it for him to see, that would be great, he'd be able to see and eat it. hope it all gets better!

 

[katyboombaty]

well here's an update: the eye still looks pretty "ew" and the white thing under it is still there, however i dropped a pellet on the side of his bad eye by accident, but he still saw it! maybe ther is hope. He did eat dinner after seeing that, but is back to resting for now. i hope this is a sign that he is getting better. Thanks for the adivce guys and i'll update about how he's doing

 

[Miss Marigold]

I have read that popeye is actually not that serious of a disease...there's a story of one fish that actually got a horrible case of it and had both eyes literally pop out, but she still lived happily ever after, blind as a bat though she was...

 

[katyboombaty]

well, big spender is 100% back to normal!! YAY! he got completely better about 4 days ago. and he has a nice bubble nest today too! however, my boyfriend's betta Stang is dying he's about 2 years old or so and had this lump on his side for about a year. now the scales fell off and has left a hole and i think its body rot. i've tried all sorts of meds but to no avail so i think i might have to euthanize him tomorrow because he's suffering.

 

[Miss Marigold]

Glad to hear that your fish is better! Sorry to hear that your boyfriend's isn't better... From the sounds of it, I think you'll have to end up putting him out his misery just remember that it's probably the kindest thing to do.